: :...However, I was asking the
Prime Minister about the 14,000 cases of fraud a day. Many older
people have been duped out of hard-earned savings, but the
Business Secretary casually suggests on TV, “Don’t worry; it’s
not real crime.” There is a crime gang in Manchester nicking cars
and shipping them around the world, all financed by covid loans
from the taxpayer. What is the Chancellor’s response? Write off
£4 billion in losses, and block an investigation by
the National Crime
Agency The Prime Minister’s Cabinet is turning a
blind eye to scammers. Is it any wonder that his anti-fraud
Minister realised that no one in Government seemed to care and
threw in the towel?
The Prime Minister: No, because what we are doing is
tackling crime across the board. That is why we are investing
more in tackling fraud, but we are also tackling the
neighbourhood crime that does such massive psychological damage
to people in this country. We are tackling knife crime, burglary
and crimes of violence in the street with tougher sentences—which
Labour voted against, by the way—and putting more police out on
the street. And we are able to afford it because we have a strong
economy and we are coming back strongly from covid, and that is
thanks to the big calls that this Government got right.
